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Using Red Gel to Boost Greens in the Background

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I did a quick proof of concept test with my gels and SB600 today – it was pretty cool.

The thought behind this is: If we use a orange gel over a flash or strobe to add orange to a light on the subject to balance out the orange sun light on the background what we are also doing is using orange on our subject to add blue (orange’s compliment) to the background.

If that is the case – flip your thinking around and don’t use a gel to match your subject’s white balance to the background – bring out a color in the background by casting it’s compliment onto your subject! I wanted to bring out the spring green in the trees by using a red (green’s compliment) color cast on my subject. Read on to see how it went. Here’s a hint – it worked 😉

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Filed Under: Flashes, Strobes & Lighting Tagged With: complimentary colors, gel, green, lighting diagram, lighting setup, nikon, Nikon SJ-1 Gel, proof of concept, red, rosco, sb600, strobe

Lighting the Egg Photograph

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I remember one day in college I was sitting next to a kid in a free computer lab working on some stuff before class and he opened up a photograph of an egg that he shot for his “Advanced Commercial Photography” class. He told me that “this is the ultimate test for a photographer, perfectly lighting a white egg against a white background.” This was about a year before I bought my D70s and I thought it was a cool idea and a cool photograph.

Come to find out the kid was:

  1. a tool
  2. arrogant spoiled rich kid
  3. wrong

Lighting an egg is not the ultimate test, but a good exercise in lighting. When photographing an egg you want to eliminate as much shadow as possible but give the egg definition so it doesn’t get washed out in the white.

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Filed Under: Flashes, Strobes & Lighting Tagged With: diagram, egg, flash, lighting, photo, pictures, sb600, strobe, strobist, umbrella

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